Ever since I first got this motherboard years back one thing about it has annoyed me slightly. Every time I start up the PC I get a screen at the start which says:

""Nvidia RAID IDE ROM BIOS 4.83
Copyright (c) 2004 NVIDIA CORP

Detecting Array...

SiL 3132 SataLink BIOS Version 7.2.11""

That screen takes about 15 seconds to disappear. I don't use RAID and have all RAID settings I can see disabled in the BIOS.

Obviously 15 seconds is hardly important when my PC used to take nearly 2 minutes to start anyway. But recently I bought a OCZ Vertex SSD and now my PC starts up in 1 minute, so I'm finding that 15 second pause is now very annoying considering its now a quarter of the system boot time.

Does anyone know if this screen just has to be their with this motherboard or if there's a setting I may have wrong? Like I said I made sure I'd disabled all RAID options in the BIOS. Then I thought maybe it was doing it because I had my SATA drives on auto, so I tried to enter their settings manually, but found that the BIOS won't see to let me do that for any SATA drive.

Wow that was the very first motherboard i had in a pc that i built my self! And more importantly i remember having that screen for the first day i had it! I couldnt install windows onto a raid array with only one hard drive (supprisingly...)

Took me ages to find the bios setting that turns off the bios raid controller (this was a bit over 4 years ago now and the board is long gone to ebay). Have another poke around the bios and there should be a raid option somewhere that gets rid of it and just boots straight to the hard drive.

i have this board and untill recently run a 4400+ on it
if i remeber corectly you have to disable show rom and set the controller to IDE only
if you are not using the silicon sata ports they can be switch off in onboard devices via the bios

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I'm still unable to remove the screen. I've gone over the BIOS and can't find anything to do with RAID that I still have enabled. I also can't find an option for "Show ROM" and I use two Sata ports for my two HDD's so I can't turn SATA off completely.

What I'm going to do is post up my entire BIOS, I realise 99% of it is irrelivant but I thought posting it all was better then just posting stuff I think is relivent considering I can't find the right option to sort this out myself.

Right I decided that if the problem couldn't be sorted in the BIOS I'd see what could be done with the hardware. I thought I'd remove my second HDD and DVDRW temporarily just to get rid of the screen and see if relocating them would keep it away. After all how can the PC try to detect an array with only one drive in the system right?.. It still does it though! :lol: One drive in the system and all RAID options off in the BIOS and its still sitting their "detecting array"

Tried disabling them, all it does it disable the IDE channels completely.

I thought it might possibly be due to the specific ports I've used to plug the drives in, so I unplugged every drive in the system, I still get "detecting array" though

One thing I did notice is that since I removed my IDE DVDRW the PC now boots in 45 seconds (Windows takes 15 seconds less time to start then before). But 15 seconds of that is still waiting for that detecting array screen.